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Comment on "Thermal Lifshitz force between an atom and a conductor with a small density of carriers"

Quantum Physics 2015-05-13 v2

Abstract

We demonstrate that the generalization of the Lifshitz theory proposed by L. P. Pitaevskii arXiv:0801.0656 [Phys. Rev. Lett. v.101, 163202 (2008)] violates the Nernst heat theorem for many dielectric materials and is experimentally inconsistent.

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@article{arxiv.0810.3243,
  title  = {Comment on "Thermal Lifshitz force between an atom and a conductor with a small density of carriers"},
  author = {B. Geyer and G. L. Klimchitskaya and U. Mohideen and V. M. Mostepanenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.3243},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

2 pages, 1 figure; minor revisions are made in accordance with the text accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett